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My last boss who was also the owner of the company. Horrible micromanager. Daily meetings to discuss what I was doing that day. Would ask me to repeat what clients said verbatim. Would try and use fear tactics to get more work from clients. Completely out of touch with the technical aspect of what we did and never really seemed to understand things when we explained tasks to him. We all hated his guts. Many clients disliked him. The people down and Arizona Department of Environmental Quality hated him. He was all in all just a magnanimous prick.
The compulsive liar who committed the worst sexual harassment I've ever seen in my LIFE. That guy was twisted in so many ways. It was a civilian job. What a nightmare.
A chick who came into the company as a temp the same time as me. She had this dual personality. One day she would be nice, and almost too talkative and the next she would come in with a stick up her a&&. She'd say things like, "please don't pick up my papers off the printer, as you might compromise the integrity of my hard work." Or if I got up and went to the kitchen, she'd come follow me and say, "you did not lock your screen before you left, do you need to be shown how?" and she was just a nightmare, she made me cringe. She IMHO bordered on abusing me verbally. So I told the boss about it, and she noticed some other questionable things she did and canned her. That was 6 years ago, I'm still with the company.
My last boss who was also the owner of the company. Horrible micromanager. Daily meetings to discuss what I was doing that day. Would ask me to repeat what clients said verbatim. Would try and use fear tactics to get more work from clients. Completely out of touch with the technical aspect of what we did and never really seemed to understand things when we explained tasks to him. We all hated his guts. Many clients disliked him. The people down and Arizona Department of Environmental Quality hated him. He was all in all just a magnanimous prick.
I worked for an attorney once who was just the meanest person I've ever dealt with in all of my years doing this job (paralegal/legal secretary).
Well don't you know, after working there for about a year, he lost ALL of those clients! He was left with a few dinky cases.
Karma is a true thing!!
I've seen karma like this twice. The recent boss who left, I think she realized how despised she was and other things were closing in on her so she left. And, when I worked in Arizona I had a nutty boss. She fired so many people that had been there for years, then hiring new ones in order to pay them less. Well, after 7 years of her power reign (I had left) I found out they closed the place, escorting her out, along with her 2 Cronies.
My previous boss threw me to the wolves so to speak. I worked second shift. Another girl worked first shift. I really didnt know what she did since both of us had different job duties. If she had anything pending, it was pretty simple( so and so is going to pick this shipment up at this time, heres the paperwork) that kinda stuff. Well she got pregnant and had to quit since dr wanted her on bed rest.
I found this out on the same day they wanted me to start. My boss called me and said to come in early for a meeting. So I did, it wasnt a meeting it was to cover for this girl. No training, nothing. The guys who worked in the warehouse tried to help me but they had their work as well. After 2 days, I was in over my head. Paperwork went missing and my ex psychotic supervisor went insane. (Someone from the office picked up when I stepped out to make copies). She straight out told me "Why are you so stupid?!" I walked out, tossed my id/badge on her desk and never looked back.
This supervisor ran HR but she was horrible with her employees. She didnt know how to talk to people. One time, she even called me into the office to ask me if I was seeing anyone because one of the guys was interested in me and asked her to ask me. WTF?! She had her good and bad days. No one was really sure which side we'd see. A lot of people quit because of her and the owner was going crazy because due to lack of employees, he was having to pay lots of OT to his current employees.
I've seen karma like this twice. The recent boss who left, I think she realized how despised she was and other things were closing in on her so she left. And, when I worked in Arizona I had a nutty boss. She fired so many people that had been there for years, then hiring new ones in order to pay them less. Well, after 7 years of her power reign (I had left) I found out they closed the place, escorting her out, along with her 2 Cronies.
It's glorious to witness this, right? Me and the two associates that worked for him were happy about it...we all quit shortly thereafter....
The poor girl who replaced me quit after three weeks
A co-worker who was a classic borderline personality disorder from hell. I had to share a tiny office with her and listen to her cuss out her daughter, husband, and who knows who else. She would come into the office, drop her bag on her desk, and then go out the back door of the building and be out shopping for hours, come back and show off all the crap she bought on company time. Back-stabbing, lying, dividing staff, kissing up to managers, creating chaos and drama all the time, sabotaging everyone's work, especially mine. She was a ''Jekyll and Hyde'' who behaved one way in a small office space, and another way to management. It was literally sickening to see her in action.
I took all I could after I started having panic attacks, severe depression, and found myself Googling ''nervous breakdown'' to see if I was having one. I was!
I filed a grievance, management threw me under the bus and put me on a PIP. That was my exit cue. I resigned and never looked back. My body, mind, and soul are doing so much better now.
I'll never understand why companies have such a hesitation to terminate terrible managers/supervisors and instead let employee after employee quit, the remaining ones suffer reduced motivation/morale and productivity, I can't even begin to calculate how much money it costs the company (has to be in the hundreds of thousands easy as each employee costs at least ten thousand in recruitment).
If employee after employee is quitting it is either bad supervisor, bad pay, or bad working conditions.
I'll never understand why companies have such a hesitation to terminate terrible managers/supervisors and instead let employee after employee quit, the remaining ones suffer reduced motivation/morale and productivity, I can't even begin to calculate how much money it costs the company (has to be in the hundreds of thousands easy as each employee costs at least ten thousand in recruitment).
If employee after employee is quitting it is either bad supervisor, bad pay, or bad working conditions.
That one is a head scratcher to me also. Sometimes, there are supervisors who are very good at their job, but just have zero people skills, no empathy, play favorites, etc...If the bad supervisor has been there for years, sometimes upper management is either too lazy to replace them or wishes not to replace them because they would have to go through training someone new for the job.
Something else that also puzzles me is why the powers that be continue to move around "problem employees". If a company has a cancer, you don't move it to other parts of the building to wreak havoc, you REMOVE it permanently. I have seen this happen time and time again.
Also, the place where I work now...the director gets investigated by corporate if more than three people resign within a month's time, So I think he lets people walk all over him.
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